As you can imagine, putting together illustrations for a book like this is very tricky: all the images of the programme itself are heavily encumbered by copyright, so I have to carefully find public-domain, CC By or CC By-SA images and composite them to get the ideas that I want.

Unfortunately, now that you’ve seen the cover and the Series 6 artwork, you’ve seen everything good that I’ve done. I have a piece for Series 5 representing the Crack In Time, but it’s pretty terrible — bad enough, in fact, that I’m not going to post it here. And I can’t even think of an iconic or representative image for Series 7.

So I need your help!

Dear readers: I bet some of you are much better artists than I am. I would deeply appreciate if someone were to donate some artwork that I could use. I can’t offer anything by way of recompense (unless you count credits in the acknowledgements). I’m not going to pretend it will be a gateway to fame and fortune. I’m just asking for a favour.

So if anyone can come up with contributions representing Series 5 or 7 — or indeed individual episodes or anything else relevant that I could toss in here or there — I’d count it a kindness. Please note that all images must be unencumbered by copyright. That means that all components, and the composition of them, must be either public domain, CC By or CC By-SA. I’ll need documentation of the image sources and licences, along the lines that I provided for the impossible astronaut image above.

I know it’s a lot to ask, but does anyone fancy taking a stab at it? If you do, you can either send me your images at mike@miketaylor.org.uk, or post them on a server like Flickr, imgur or DeviantArt and leave a comment here with a link. The latter will be more fun, I guess, so we can comment on each other’s art.

A dinosaur on a spaceship is a neat image, for sure; but it doesn’t at all summarise the series as a whole. But then, does anything? It was so much a series of two halves, after all. Perhaps with that in mind the Snowman from the very middle would be the least inappropriate choice; but it’s not very visually striking (unlike, say, the impossible astronaut).

Andrew, suggestions are helpful! By all means keep them coming. Best wishes for your own book launch.

Owen, I didn’t know the filming had been done there: the Wikipedia page doesn’t mention it, which I admit is all the research I usually do. I’m really happy with Mono Lake, though, especially because I made the Wish You Were Here connection right back in my Impossible Astronaut review.

jwerpy, yes, that is exactly the impression I was going for. I love the visor reflecting something other than what would be reflected in it, and the classic Buzz Aldrin photo was a gift.